Primitive tool to record GIFs from terminal commands

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I've made a primitive tools to record GIF files. There's many tools like this, but I was inspired by VHS[0]. The thing is, VHS requires ffmpeg and chromium to create GIFs and videos, which is a nice approach, but it's too heavy for my taste. Basically, I forked a simple terminal emulator[1] written in plain C and added commands to write output straight to a GIF file[2]. It's stil a WIP pet-project, but I believe it could be usefull for someone, for example, to create animated illustrations for documentation, blog posts and such. [0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/ [1] https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft/ [2] https://github.com/lecram/gifenc/

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